Hose-tip.



No. 655,879. Patented Aug. I4, |909.

G. W. LISK.

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SPECIFICATION forming par@ of Letters Patent No. 655,879, tarea August 14, 190e. Application tiled March '7, 1900. Serial No. 7,692. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE VV'. LIsK, of Clifton Springs, inthe county of Ontario and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hose-Tips, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is an end piece or tip for hose designed more particularly to be used with small hose or india-rubber tubes-as, for eX- ample, such as used for inflating the indiarubber tires of the wheels of bicycles or motor-wagons.

The main object of the invention is to provide a tip or end piece for the hose by means of which the connection with the tire may be made quickly and by a mere contact or pressing together of the parts Without the turning or fitting together of threaded or other inter locking parts.

The invention is hereinafter fullyY described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,for1ning a part of this speciiication.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of a wheel with india-rubber tire, showing my invention applied, a minor part being longitudinally sectioned, as on the dotted line 1 l in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan of the linger-rest and cushion, seen as indicated by arrow 2 in Fig.` l, a part being horizontally sectioned, as on the dotted line in Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of parts of the wheel and of the hose-tip, taken as on the dotted line in Fig. l. Fig. 4, drawn to a larger,4 scale, shows more fully the construction and relation of the parts, the section shown being as on the dotted line in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a part of the felly of the wheel, showing a rubber cone `on the inflation-tube. Fig. 6 is a central longitudinal section of the cone in place upon the tube. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of connected parts, the cone and other parts being sectioned, as on the dotted line in Fig. 2. Fig. 8 shows in side elevation the tip, cone, and other associated parts when connected.

A is the felly of the wheel, and B the rubber tire therefor.

a is the ordinary inflating tube or nipple; rigid with the wheel, Z9, Figs. 5 and 6, being a screw-cap therefor.

C is a flexible tube or hose, as of india-rub= ber, leading from an air-pump or other source of air-supply.

c is a tubular terminal for the hose O, as ot metal, permanently connected therewith, formed with a reduced part or extreme end Ad to enter the tube a for in dating the tire. A

lingenrest e is placed transversely upon the part d of the terminal c, rigid therewith and resting against the shoulderf at the base of the part d. This finger-rest is formed with a circular flange or cup i, having a rolled edge 7.a, in which is placed a yielding disk or cushion g, Figs. 1, 3, Lt, and 7, as of indiarubber, as shown,which cushion when pressed against the end ot' the tube reforms an air-tight joint therewith, or if the wheel have a soft-rubber cone h upon the tube Ct, as is frequently the case, the edge of the flange or cup t' is pressed against the rubber cone, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, to make the air-tight joint.

In using this device for inliating tires it is simply pressed against the inflating-tube a or the cone h, as the case may be, by means of the thumb and fingers of the left hand, as indicated in Fig. 1.. No time taken orlost in making connections with the tube a for the purpose of inflating the tire, as no threaded parts or other similar coupling devices or connections need be shifted or adjusted, it being only necessary to remove the screw-cap h from the tube a when it is wished to inflate the tire.

What I claim as my invention is,-

1. A hose tip or coupling comprising a tu bular part secured to the end of the hose, and a laterally-proj ectin g linger-rest carried by said tubular part, and a cushion on the tubular part adjacent to the finger-rest, substantially as shown and described. l

2. A tip or terminal for hose, comprising a tubular part carried by the hose, and a laterally-projecting finger-rest on said tubular part, formed with a circular Ilange or cup, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. A hose tip or coupling comprising a tubular part carried at the end of the hose, formed with a. reduced part or terminal, and With a shoulder, a finger-rest on said reduced 5 part and resting against said shoulder of the tubular part, and a yielding diskor cushion on the reduced part, substantially as set forth.

` 4. A hose tip or coupling comprising a. tubular part held et the end of the hose, 2L latxo erally-projecting finger-rest 0n the tubular part, having a. flange or cup, and a yielding disk or cushion in said cup, substantially as shown and described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 28th da-y of February, 1900, in the I5 presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE XV. LISK.

Witnesses:

lMARY T. LIsK,

D. W. PATRIDGE. 

